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| 4313767888 | Ad hominem | Reducing the credibility of the opposition by attacking them personally for who they are or actions they've taken and not addressing their arguments or statements. | 0 | |
| 4313793763 | Tautology (Circular Reasoning) | An argument is circular if its conclusion is among its premises. | 1 | |
| 4313803578 | Reductio ad absurdum | Used to to show an abuse of this style of argument by stretching the logic in order to force an absurd conclusion. | 2 | |
| 4313845213 | Idyllic | extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque. | 3 | |
| 4313858400 | Unequivocal | leaving no doubt; unambiguous. | 4 | |
| 4313872430 | Insolent | showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect. | 5 | |
| 4313885527 | Indignant | feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment. | 6 | |
| 4313892027 | Foreboding | fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen. | 7 | |
| 4313901693 | Sullen | a sulky or depressed mood. | 8 | |
| 4313906532 | Vexed | annoyed, frustrated, or worried. | 9 | |
| 4313913319 | Disparaging | expressing the opinion that something is of little worth; derogatory. | 10 | |
| 4313917491 | Impetuous | of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive. | 11 | |
| 4313926361 | Avaricious | having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain. | 12 | |
| 4313935058 | Pedantic | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | 13 | |
| 4313945508 | Poignant | evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret. | 14 | |
| 4313949290 | Morose | sullen and ill-tempered. | 15 | |
| 4313950856 | Enigmatic | difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious. | 16 | |
| 4313956467 | Docile | ready to accept control or instruction; submissive. | 17 | |
| 4313964787 | Euphemistic | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. | 18 | |
| 4313969351 | Grotesque | comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. | 19 | |
| 4313993628 | Inundates | overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with. | 20 | |
| 4314001071 | Postulates | suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief. | 21 | |
| 4314006940 | Corroborates | confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding). | 22 | |
| 4314017735 | Sagacious | having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd. | 23 | |
| 4314039213 | Piquant | pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind. | 24 | |
| 4314051572 | Aphoristic | is a short, pithy statement containing a truth of general import; | 25 | |
| 4314071304 | Periodic sentence | has the main clause or predicate at the end | 26 | |
| 4314112699 | Complex sentence | A complex sentence is made up of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses connected to it | 27 | |
| 4314115860 | Compound-complex sentence | a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 28 | |
| 4314123693 | Interrogative sentence | one which asks a question. | 29 | |
| 4314134321 | Omniscient | is to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, feelings, etc. | 30 | |
| 4314139482 | In media res | It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action. | 31 | |
| 4314187184 | Effeminate | (of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly. | 32 | |
| 4314260236 | Parenthetical expression | is a phrase or clause that's inserted within—in effect, it interrupts—another phrase or clause | 33 | |
| 4314264737 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 34 | |
| 4314268696 | Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 35 | |
| 4314278526 | Asyndeton | It is a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy | 36 | |
| 4314285557 | Apostrophe | A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 37 | |
| 4314290330 | Passive voice | The noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence (such as Our troops defeated the enemy) appears as the subject of a sentence with passive voice (e.g. The enemy was defeated by our troops). | 38 | |
| 4314307551 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 39 | |
| 4314315651 | Syllogism | is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. | 40 | |
| 4314346810 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 41 | |
| 4314352371 | Chiasmus | is a figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words. | 42 | |
| 4333123749 | Ellipsis | In grammar, the omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction but understood in context. | 43 | |
| 4333156547 | Prolepsis | A future event is refereed to in anticipation; a grammatical construction that consist of putting a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond | 44 | |
| 4333194399 | Analepsis | A flashback; to restore or do over | 45 | |
| 4333206334 | Dichotomy | Having two parts that are contradictory | 46 | |
| 4333210979 | Tautology | Needless redundancy of the same idea | 47 | |
| 4333215289 | Apotheosize | To glorify, exalt or raise to the heavens | 48 | |
| 4333219594 | Volatile | fickle, tending toward violence; explosive | 49 | |
| 4333239568 | Warrant | The assumption or principle that connects the data to the claim | 50 | |
| 4333244881 | Consession | Presenting or accepting an argument from the other side of the issue | 51 | |
| 4333256948 | Brusque | Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner. | 52 | |
| 4333261393 | Cynicism | An inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism. | 53 | |
| 4333262352 | Derisive | Expressing contempt or ridicule. | 54 | |
| 4333265883 | Effusive | Expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner. | 55 | |
| 4333273146 | Fervent | having or displaying a passionate intensity. | 56 | |
| 4333279215 | Insolent | showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect. | 57 | |
| 4333284575 | Jocund | cheerful and lighthearted. | 58 | |
| 4333285786 | Jovial | cheerful and friendly. | 59 | |
| 4333289924 | Lethargic | sluggish and apathetic. | 60 | |
| 4333292578 | Lugubrious | looking or sounding sad and dismal. | 61 | |
| 4333294938 | Parochial | having a limited or narrow outlook or scope. | 62 | |
| 4333298263 | Reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily. | 63 | |
| 4333300093 | Sanguine | optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation. | 64 | |
| 4333310991 | Abhorring | regard with disgust and hatred. | 65 | |
| 4333315383 | Vitriolic | filled with bitter criticism or malice. | 66 | |
| 4333319220 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another. | 67 | |
| 4333328240 | Jeremiads | a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes. | 68 | |
| 4333332620 | Staccato | short and not sounding connected | 69 | |
| 4333348459 | Enumeratio | Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something | 70 | |
| 4333351471 | Homily | any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 71 | |
| 4333361175 | Metonymy | is a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 72 | |
| 4333381586 | Synesthesia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another | 73 | |
| 4333397988 | Sardonic | grimly mocking or cynical. | 74 | |
| 4333403150 | Esoteric | intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest. | 75 | |
| 4333405934 | Pedantic | someone who's too concerned with literal accuracy or formality. | 76 | |
| 4333411081 | Abstruse | difficult to understand; obscure. | 77 | |
| 4333413027 | Veneration | great respect; reverence. | 78 | |
| 4333415770 | Mirth | amusement, especially as expressed in laughter. | 79 | |
| 4333418824 | Forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely. | 80 | |
| 4333423819 | Platonic | (of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual. | 81 | |
| 4333426188 | Enamor | be filled with a feeling of love for. | 82 | |
| 4333428631 | Vehement | showing strong and often angry feelings | 83 | |
| 4333432046 | Petulant | (of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered. | 84 | |
| 4333444529 | Autonomous | acting independently or having the freedom to do so. | 85 | |
| 4333449079 | Exacerbate | make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse. | 86 | |
| 4333451229 | Prolific | present in large numbers or quantities; plentiful. | 87 | |
| 4333456765 | Dogmatic | inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true. | 88 | |
| 4333458690 | Mundane | lacking interest or excitement; dull. | 89 | |
| 4333466034 | Bequeath | leave (a personal estate or one's body) to a person or other beneficiary by a will. | 90 | |
| 4333469485 | expunge | erase or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant). | 91 | |
| 4333473719 | scrupulous | (of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details. | 92 | |
| 4333477070 | corroboration | evidence that confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation. | 93 | |
| 4333479705 | acquiesce | accept something reluctantly but without protest. | 94 | |
| 4333497480 | discourse | a formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing, as a dissertation, treatise, sermon | 95 | |
| 4333507890 | invective | vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach. an insulting or abusive word or expression. | 96 | |
| 4333512087 | inverted sentence | one in which the subject appears after the verb. This construction causes the subject to receive more emphasis. | 97 | |
| 4333530461 | syntax | grammatical sentence structure | 98 | |
| 4333536316 | wit | speech or writing showing such perception and expression. The ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humorous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things | 99 |
